You'll need to be able to access this site to answer your OMAM Q's!
In order to prepare for Of Mice and Men,
by John Steinbeck,please complete this webquest below so you can learn about the
Dust Bowl and its effects.
On a separate piece of paper, respond to the questions for each website.If you don't finish in class, please finish at home. If you don't have the internet at home (or it's down), you'll need to make a point of going to the library or working with a friend because this work is due tomorrow.
Blogwork for Wednesday, Jan. 4
Due: Thursday, Jan. 5
General Background (from Wikipedia)
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land". Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.[1] Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg and Tom Paxton have acknowledged their debt to Guthrie as an influence.
Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and
learned traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about
his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour".[2] Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States communist[3] groups, though he was seemingly not a member of any.
To find out more specific information, go to each link below and answer the questions.
Woody Guthrie.
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/biography/biography1.htm
- List three interesting facts about Woody's childhood.
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/biography/biography2.htm
- How did the Dust Bowl affect Woody?
- When did Woody die? From what disease did he die?
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/music/doremi.htm
- Listen to this song by Woody called "Do-Re-Mi." You need Quicktime. If you can't listen to it, just use the lyrics to answer the question
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After you listen, read the lyrics below. What comment is this song
making about the social and economic situation in America during the
1930's?
Do Re Mi
Words and Music by Woody
Guthrie (1937)
Lots of folks back East, they say, is
leavin' home every day,
Beatin' the hot old dusty way to the California line.
'Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin' out of that old dust bowl,
They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find
Now, the police at the port of entry say,
"You're number fourteen thousand for today."
Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi,
folks, you ain't got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia,
Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi.
You want to buy you a home or a farm,
that can't deal nobody harm,
Or take your vacation by the mountains or sea.
Don't swap your old cow for a car, you better stay right where you are,
Better take this little tip from me.
'Cause I look through the want ads every day
But the headlines on the papers always say:
If you ain't got the do re mi, boys,
you ain't got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia,
Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi.
